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Quotes About Fatigue

Overwork can cause a break down.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.
~ Steve House
L'amour, c'est une chose privée, qu'on vous dit! Pour après les fatigues des journées salariées, les soins aux chiards et tout le tintouin domestique.
~ Alexandre Jardin
The point is that the fatigue characteristic of such depression reasserts itself every time we repress strong emotions, play down the memories stored in the body, and refuse them the attention they clamor for.
~ Alice Miller
Todo el mundo está cansado. Lo que pasa es que algunos aprenden a actuar como si no lo estuvieran.
~ Alice Munro
Being in my late 60s, what my wife calls the cocktail hour of life, some of these walks were much more tiring than I anticipated, even though my farm work keeps me reasonably fit. But that is the nature of research.
~ Alistair Moffat
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
~ Allen Ginsberg
I can't walk forever, Malacus, I can't fight forever. How much of this horrible shit should a man have to take? I need to sit down a minute. In a proper fucking chair! Is that too much to ask? Is it?
~ Joe Abercrombie
the greater strength of the slow-twitch, endurance muscles following weight training allows them to carry more of the burden of powering the bike, reducing the role of the fast-twitch muscles. Since the fast-twitch muscles fatigue rather quickly, decreasing their contribution to the total force results in greater endurance.
~ Joe Friel
Heroism was exhausting business.
~ Joe Hill
Estou tão cansada – falou. – De sentir medo. De não conseguir ajudar as pessoas.
~ Joe Hill
And that's when manager Eddie Sawyer called for Roberts to pitch relief and the Dodgers' manager Charlie Dressen called in Don Newcombe to match up. Talk about a different time: Roberts and Newcombe had pitched the day before. They were on zero days rest
~ Joe Posnanski
myasthenia gravis
~ Joe Schwarcz
Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.
~ Joel Shepherd
Caffeine blocks the receptor that picks up on the level of adenosine. "I liken it to putting a Post-it note over your fuel-gauge indicator. You're not giving yourself more energy—you're just not realizing how empty you are. When the caffeine wears off, you're doubly exhausted.
~ Johann Hari
Throughout the day, in your brain, a chemical called adenosine is building up, and it signals to you when you are sleepy. Caffeine blocks the receptor that picks up on the level of adenosine. "I liken it to putting a Post-it note over your fuel-gauge indicator. You're not giving yourself more energy—you're just not realizing how empty you are. When the caffeine wears off, you're doubly exhausted.
~ Johann Hari
Sleep deprivation damages memory as well.
~ Johann Hari
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
~ John Darnielle
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
~ Joanna Russ
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
~ David Brainerd
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
~ T. S. Eliot
If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.
~ E M Cioran
The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the [echo's] comment would have been the same—"Ou-boum."
~ E. M. Forster